#prelude to foundation

[daneelsolivaw]

cant get over chetter hummin/daneel saying “that sounds uncommonly ugly” like not “thats strange” or “that is a peculiar sounding hairstyle”. uncommonly ugly. advanced fashion. you could buy some. love that mischievous enquiring twink.

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[someday-dreamlands]

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[larmegliamori]

Hari & Dors in period-accurate (Late Roman Empire) clothing.

[stained-glass-cicada]

Fuck! I was already obsessed with the foundation series but I finished prelude and its left me with that "everyone ought to read this" feeling

This was, more or less expected as a lifelong sci-fi nerd finally reading asimov, but well, you never expect the classics to be as good as they are

I am now entirely convinced that I am reading these in the precise order I would want to (foundation, foundation and empire, prelude to foundation, so far)

Because I saw Seldon as an old man, placing the final pins in his big plan, become this almost deified figure. I saw the ways he solved problems and some of his rules of psychohistory and got the set up for the second foundation

Then, just as all faith in Seldon is thoroughly shaken: Hi here's Hari, he's never had a thought looking back farther than his breakfast two days ago, please enjoy watching him get run out of town repeatedly

He will now learn a series of lessons on what humans who aren't mathematicians are like, each will show him picking up the earliest inklings of what You Know will one day become psychohistory even as he denies its practicality

[2lim3rz]

Hummin is LITERALLY deus ex machina incarnate I SWEAR

[hazeism]

"Haze, where have you been?"

1. my pen broke 2. actually i have no excuses. umn. hi

[benedictusantonius]

[2024|003] Prelude to Foundation (1988) written by Isaac Asimov

[god-of-whatever]

Foundation

I'm not far into the book yet but so far I am rooting for Hari and Dors (sorry Yanna), please don't tell me Dors is indeed secretly plotting something.

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[methodwriting]

hari seldon the token straight in dors and hummin t4t relationship. this is canon

[daneelsolivaw]

Recently discovered a new artist (Kacy Hill) and she’s so Dors coded like

[positronicvisions]

Eto Demerzel, First Minister to Emperor Cleon I

[azra-idek]

OK so thinking about something further. Prelude to Foundation and Robots and Empire spoilers under the read more tag.

Daneel says, at the end of Prelude, that Giskard invented the Zeroth law, and Giskard was acting in accordance with that when he deactivated. However, it was Daneel who coined the Zeroth Law, tried to convince Giskard of it, and Giskard's inability to wholly grasp it is what ultimately led to his deactivation due to his actions against the First Law.

Why would Daneel rewrite history in this method? It seems of no benefit to me superficially: perhaps only sentimentally to grant Giskard the authorship to the glorious Zeroth Law. I thought it was maybe a case of the author simply forgetting who did what, but Robots and Empire was written in 1985, and Prelude in 1988, so surely that is not the case.

If it is some significance in later times, just tell me that it is - I'm still reading! I just can't think it would have any true bearing.

[waffle-sorter]

"The victim of a crime" - well, first of all you haven't demonstrated that a crime took place. The accusation leveled against the protagonists is "intent to start a riot" (which, does that even have a "victim"?); the evidence presented is "you said this guy worked for the government instead of the news"; the supposed victim is neither dead nor hurt, but says he was handled roughly...

"You, as the criminals" - see above, and also they're only the accused so far.

[paulgadzikowski]

I'm rereading Prelude to Foundation right now, of all things to encounter a passage about the way empires suppress resistance by cultivating internecine conflict between progressives

Re-reading A Canticle for Leibowitz, and I remember when I read it the first time as a tween thinking, "Okay, it's kind of far-fetched that people would be so rabidly anti-knowledge, but I'll accept it for the sake of the story, " but now I look around and like, yep, Walter M. Miller was a fucking prophet.

[hazeism]

I understand you Demerzel treating Cleon I like a little poppet is the most fun ever. many tentative and shifting designs.